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5th March 2010

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Nikola Tamindzic: Don't be an ass: credit the artist.

If you’re posting someone else’s work, credit them. Don’t deliberately remove the name of the artist. That’s just wrong. If your reasoning is that it’s own personal scrapbook — then keep it personal, don’t make it public. If it’s public, least you can do is credit the artist and link back to their site, or at least their Wikipedia entry.

When I see something I like not credited — I try to track down the source, if for no other reason than to find more art by the same person. Consider this a small payback to the artist whose art you liked enough to post on your Tumblr. Use Tineye to track down original visual art — it’s easy to use, and takes no more than 10 seconds to do a search.

And that was your PSA for today. In the next episode: public shaming.

TinEye = internet Shazam.

I now feel extra fucking awesome for tracking down and crediting this dude on my NVC logo.

I am excited to read his take on public shaming.

Reblog of GUMPLR

ilovecharts:

Huffington Post front page.

Wow. ALL CAPS Arial and a chart saved as a lossy-ass JPG instead of a PNG. This might just be my least favorite thing on the Internet right now.

(source image - from here, blame HuffPo for the Arial and at least some of the generation decay)

Reblog of I Love Charts

3rd February 2010

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Your Guide to the Tumblr Avatar

So, let’s say you see a Tumblr avatar/favicon image you really like. Clearly, your browser can see it, so somewhere in the mangled spaghetti mass of the internet, there is a file you can download.

Right-clicking on the dashboard will not get you the expected “save image as” or open in a new tab. You gotta a) inspect element (from the dashboard) or b) go to their Tumblr page and view source.

If you’re an “inspect element” kind of dude, its in Styles, under body>background. If you view source, search “icon”—the link’ll be right after that. Using Julia Segal (‘cause a lot of people follow her) as an example, it’ll be something like http://30.media.tumblr.com/avatar_ded324509e48_16.png

Now I bet you’re saying “Cosmo, 16 pixel images are far too small to be useful. Well, it just so happens Tumblr does a wicked job of making all the image sizes you could ever want. Just alter the last two digits before “.png” in the image address.

Here are the available sizes:

16px

http://30.media.tumblr.com/avatar_ded324509e48_16.png

30px

http://30.media.tumblr.com/avatar_ded324509e48_30.png

64px

http://30.media.tumblr.com/avatar_ded324509e48_64.png

128px

http://30.media.tumblr.com/avatar_ded324509e48_128.png

512px (won’t even fit in my template!)

http://30.media.tumblr.com/avatar_ded324509e48_512.png

Happy hunting!

4th January 2010

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dealbreaker:

Hey Everyone,

We are going to be writing a book! Here’s the official announcement, from the most recent issue of Publishers Weekly. We are so excited to be starting this project and will be sure to keep you guys updated on any developments. Thank you so much for reading our blog for the last year. This would not even be remotely possible without you all. The blog will live on as well, so keep submitting guest entries, and keep reading. We love you.

-Dave and Marisa

Ok. Several things:

Awesome picture quality bro.
terrible idea—every time you make book from blog, god kills a kitten.
there’s a “yo dawg yo” to be made out of Publishers’ Weekly.

Reblog of DEALBREAKER.

30th December 2009

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War, children. It’s just a shot away.

30th November 2009

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when i’m shopping online

greenfog:

and i want to view a larger image of the product i want that image to actually be bigger! having the same size image pop up in another window does not give me a closer look sheesh!

Well, there’s always ctrl (or command) + plus sign. It will certainly display the image across more pixels, though that’s probably not going to help.

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